Severson S. Daniel

Daniel S. Severson

Education

  • Harvard Law School, J.D., cum laude, 2016
    • Editor-in-Chief, Harvard International Law Journal
  • Harvard University, M.P.P., 2016
  • Bard College, B.A. and B.Mus., 2010

Clerkships

  • Law Clerk, Judge Allyson K. Duncan, U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit, 2016-2017

Admitted

  • 2017, New York
  • 2017, District of Columbia
  • 2020, Supreme Court of the United States

Daniel S. Severson litigates complex civil cases in state and federal trial and appellate courts throughout the country.  He has represented clients in a dozen certiorari and merits stage appeals at the U.S. Supreme Court and argued cases before two federal courts of appeals.  Daniel successfully reinstated civil rights claims as court-appointed pro bono counsel in Shaw v. Foreman, 59 F.4th 121 (4th Cir. 2023).  

Before joining the firm in 2017, Daniel served as a law clerk to the Honorable Allyson Kay Duncan on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.  He graduated cum laude from Harvard Law School, where he was Editor-in-Chief for the Harvard International Law Journal and received the Myer Dana and Etta Dana Scholarship and the Dwight D. Eisenhower Scholarship.  Daniel also holds a Master in Public Policy from Harvard University and was awarded Harvard University’s Presidential Public Service Fellowship for work at the U.S. Department of Defense.  He has served as a foreign affairs analyst at the U.S. Department of State and a Fulbright Scholar in Taiwan.  Daniel graduated from Bard College with degrees in political studies and French horn performance.

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